Nearly 30% of World Population Is Overweight

5/29/2014 4:04PM

About 29% of the world's population were either overweight or obese in 2013, and nearly two out of three of the obese live in developing countries, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Marie Ng, lead author on the study, joins the News Hub with Sara Murray.

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